Romania - a major source of human trafficking victims

A high number of both human trafficking victims and of traffickers indicted in EU states come from Romania and Bulgaria, and Romania has a special issue with exploitation by forced begging, shows the first report of the European Commission on trafficking in human beings in the EU, covering the interval 2008 - 2010. EU Commissioner for Home Affairs Cecilia Malmstrom says that the two states need to do more to improve the living standards ...